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Welcome to the Flash Files, where we take a closer look at FlashForward to catch the clues you may have missed. We’ll also keep you up to date on all the latest news, scoops and exclusive features around the site and net at large to help you piece together the mysteries of FlashForward.

Before we go any further, consider everything from here on spoiler-worthy if you’ve not seen the latest episode, “Scary Monsters and Super Creeps”. Click the link below, catch up and come back. Of course, if you’ve seen it but feel like you may have missed some clues, you can view it again.

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Firstly, make sure you check back later this week as we’ll have an exclusive interview with Sonia Walger who plays Olivia as well as Penny Widmore on Lost. Sonia is in Australia for Melbourne Cup and we’ve been lucky enough to secure a few minutes of her time to ask her some hard hitting questions.

Despite having been shot in the stomach last week and appearing to bleed out on the sidewalk, Janis survived her gun wound. As I predicted last week, this puts her in a confusing predicament – it appears she now can’t fall pregnant, something she never wanted to have happen, yet all around fate seems to be showing you can’t change what you saw.

Demetri finally decided to change his tune and use all the information available to him in order to try and change the future, even going so far as to follow up a lead from Mark’s clue board that he’d previously dismissed. Examining one of Janis’ would-be assassins in the morgue revealed a blue hand, something Demetri recalled Mark mentioning being linked to Baltimore on his board.

Opting to try Baltimore St in LA before flying across the whole country proved a wise move when he and Al noticed blue hand stickers giving directions leading to several dead bodies, at least one with a blue hand. One of the bodies had a passport belonging to Ian Rutherford, the name of the as-yet unopened case Al saw himself investigating in London. If Demetri didn’t believe in the board before, he’s sure to be a convert now.

Dylan, trick-or-treating as Flava Flav (which had me calling “Yeah Boyeeee” like you wouldn’t believe) became fixated on the phrase “It’s my house too” and wandered out of the hospital, climbing onto a bus and demanding to go to 25696 Sawyer Court. The bus driver was aggressive and began hurling insults at Dylan until a man stepped in and stood up for the boy. Who was this man? He may have just been a good Samaritan but could he be something more? If Dylan’s father just killed 20 million people and is now avoiding his employers, the chances his family might be monitored are pretty high…

Dylan arrives at the Bedford’s home, not his own, where Nicole lets him in as he charges straight through. Charlie and Dylan hi-five and we see his flashforward, where he and Charlie were in the kitchen of the Bedford home. Charlie tells him he is allowed to have a cookie as it is his house too, and we see him looking at Charlie’s details on the fridge, all of which led him to that exact point. Strangely, Charlie is present for most of his flash, raising further questions as to how she knew that “D Gibbons is a bad man”.

Nicole has called Mark then the hospital to alert them to Dylan’s whereabouts, inadvertently bringing everyone together and revealing their true connections. Lloyd arrives and quickly recognises the house. Unfortunately he realizes who that makes Olivia at the same moment Mark works out who Lloyd’s connection to his wife. Mark tells Lloyd to leave and never come back but the damage is done. Mark and Olivia don’t trust each other anymore, but both for actions they haven’t committed yet and are seeking to avoid. Just like almost everyone else in this week’s episode, their trust issues stemming from what they saw in the future are preventing them from living normally in the present.

Simon is a character we’ve been hearing about since before the series premiered so it was fantastic to have him play a sizeable role in this episode. Announced to be played by Dominic Monaghan at Comic-Con in July, the former Lost star’s new TV role appears to be of a far darker nature than we’ve seen from him before.

Simon is a quantum physicist genius, one so successful he’s commonly known among beautiful woman, hiding some very murky secrets. Taking a long train trip from somewhere further north down to LA, he hooks up with a gorgeous lady, bragging about his achievements throughout. Once he’s done, he tells her of his flashforward where he saw himself strangling a man to death, and enjoying it.

While it means we can safely put him in the Not A Nice Guy category, it does rule Simon out as being Suspect Zero or D Gibbons. Lloyd admits “Our experiment killed 20 million people, Simon” leaving we the audience with a ton of question – if Lloyd and Simon were responsible for so many deaths yet blacked out themselves, how did the two people we’re aware of thus far remain awake and who do they work for? Were the deaths an intentional cause? Who backed the experiment and who benefits?

Did you catch the return of the red kangaroo? Aaron and Mark walked down the street with a trick-or-treating Charlie when the roo seen in the premiere surprisingly jumped right by them. Once again, what is the significance of the roo?